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FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK XLVI. 1 1985 p. 65-71 Three new species of the Family Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from Soviet Central Asia By Jan KRATOCHVÍL (Received December 10, 1984) Abstract: Description of three new species of the family Cerambycidae from Uzbekistan, Turkmenia and Kirghizia (USSR). The new species are compared to their closest relatives. Turanium hladili sp. n. (Figs 1-4) Turanium hladili sp. n. is compared with the most similar Turanium scabrum (Kr.). Type locality: USSR, Uzbekistan, Aktash (NE of Tashkent). Type material: Holotype, 6, labelled: "SSSR, Uzbekistan, Aktas, 22.4.1980, Igt. Hladil (ex pupa)". Deposited in coll. Kratochvil, Prague. Paratypes: 8 Í, 9 o., the same data, in collections HLADIL, KRATOCHVIL and Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Name derivation: named in honour of the collector J. HLADIL. Description. Length 7-11 mm. Head, pronotum, scutellum, antennae and legs rusty, elytra yellowish brown, ventral surface of body darker brown. Pubescence of ventral surface light, comparatively dense and long, pubescence of elytra sparser and shorter, recumbent, light, intermixed with longer black hairs in the apical portion of elytra. Head and pronotum with short recumbent pubescence intermixed with sparse longer outstanding hairs becoming denser and longer laterally. Pubescence of scutellum dense, recumbent. Femora with sparse long outstanding light hairs intermixed with separate black ones; tibiae with sparse outstanding dark hairs. Pubescence of tarsf closer, more recumbent, dark. Pubescence of antennae fine, recumbent, becoming closer distad, inner side of three basal articles moreover with close and long outstanding dark hairs becoming sparser on the following antennái segments. Pronotum transverse, 1.2 times wider than long, rounded, flat, finely punctate. Scutellum rounded, finely punctate. Elytra regularly shallowly punctate, shallowly impressed along suture before midlenght, narrowly rounded at apex. Elytra in males generally narrower and often more strongly narrowed posteriorly than in females. Antennae in males as long as or slightly longer than elytra, in males surpassing the length of elytra by length of two terminal segments. Legs with moderately swollen femora, corresponding with those of Turanium scabrum (Kr.). Pygidium narrow, rather deeply arcuately emarginate at apex. Distal end of ventral side of aedeagus acute, not extended over apex of comparatively wider dorsal side (Fig. 1). Parameres rounded at apex, with clusters of rather long rusty hairs (Fig. 3). Differential diagnosis: Closely related to Turanium scabrum (Kr.) from which it differs by the following characters: tips of parameres with clusters of long rusty hairs in Turanium hladili sp. n., while bearing only a few short pale setae in Turanium scabrum (Kr.) (Figs 3, 4); apical portion of aedeagus differently shaped in the both species (Figs 1, 2); pygidium narrower, more prolonged and markedly more deeply emarginate in Turanium hladili sp. n. than in Turanium scab-